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Improve ease of doing business, CII urges state

TNN | Updated: Aug 10, 2019, 11:53 IST

INDORE: State government should focus on improving ease of doing business and measures to bridge widening skill gap to create conducive atmosphere for industries, according to Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Madhya Pradesh. Ahead of investors summit ‘Magnificent Madhya Pradesh’ to be held in October at Indore, CII Madhya Pradesh chapter has suggested state government to adopt measures to address skill gap and improve ease of doing business besides series of other recommendations. Praveen Agarwal, chairman, CII, Madhya Pradesh State Council said, “A single window mechanism with expertize starting at execution level, especially district headquarters is very important to get desired efficiency. We have scaled the ladder in ease of doing businesses but still a lot has to be improved.” CII has suggested measures to government to improve state’s ‘Ease of Doing Business (EODB)’ rankings. The industry body has offered resources to take awareness and action plans for EODB rankings to all districts of state. Top members of industry body from Madhya Pradesh chapter along with office-bearers from the national team held a meeting with chief minister Kamal Nath at Mumbai during his visit to invite industrialists for the summit. As per World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business 2019 survey, India climbed 23 places to secure 77th rank among 190 countries surveyed. According to Pithampur Audhyogik Sangathan, the single window and ease of doing business have not been implemented properly leading to delays in approvals and roll out resulting in losses to industries.

Aiming to address widening skill gap that hurts growth and expansion of industries, CII has offered its resources for setting up of various skill development centres in state. CII members said lack of connect between academia and industries has given rise to talent issues in region that should be addressed by means of specialized training institutes. They also stressed on the need of expediting long-pending demand of an ESIC hospital in Pithampur.